I've been to the web site for Fetchmail and it looks as though it would do the job. Unfortunately it doesn't work on Windows as it is a Unix thing.
Ah well, maybe what I want isn't meant to be ....
Thanks
From: "John Tolmachoff \(Lists\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Newbie-IMAP setup problems Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 23:21:35 -0800
Imail does not have the ability to do that.
Try doing a Google search for Fetch Mail. I think that is the name of a 3rd party app that will do that.
John Tolmachoff Engineer/Consultant/Owner eServices For You
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:IMail_Forum-
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of kirk zeus
> Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 10:59 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Newbie-IMAP setup problems
>
> Many thanks for the reply Andy.
>
> Yes, I want to access my email stored on my ISP's mail server using IMAP.
> Unfortunately my ISP doesn't support
>
> IMAP. So I'm stuck with POP3 as a means to access my email held at my ISP.
>
> So the question is, how do I set up IMail to automatically download the
> email from my ISP's POP3 server into
>
> IMail (which is on my home network) and then access the downloaded email
> via
> IMAP on IMail using MS Oultook?
>
> This is all happening over a dial up 56k modem connection from my home.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> >From: "Andy Ognenoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Newbie-IMAP setup problems
> >Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 17:51:50 -0600
> >
> > > I now want to use IMAP on my local network, which I believe I can only
> >get
> > > to work by downloading the email from my ISP's POP3 server.
> >
> >Are you saying you want to access your mail stored on your ISP's mail
> >server
> >via IMAP? If so, then your ISP must support IMAP access or you need to
> >have
> >your mail forwarded from your ISP mail server to your IMail server and
> >access it via IMAP from there.
> >
> > > On Outlook 2002 I have set up an email account 'Fred'. This has
> outgoing
> > > mail server (SMTP) as 'localhost', incoming server (IMAP) as
> > > 'pop3.myisp.co.uk'.
> >
> >This is isn't going to work unless your ISP allows access via IMAP (which
> I
> >doubt they do using the server you specified.
> >
> > > The problem I have is when I try to download email using Outlook 2002,
> I
> > > get
> > > a dialogue (titled 'Internet E-mail - fred') which prompts me for the
> > > username and password for pop3.myisp.co.uk, which are already filled
> in
> > > ('tim.bloggs' and the password). I try re-entering the password but
> >still
> > > get the same dialogue back.
> >
> >Again, is probably because your ISP does not support IMAP access via that
> >server. You may want to check with your ISP if they do support IMAP, in
> >which case IMail doesn't really play a role in this scenario unless you
> set
> >it up so your ISP mail account is forwarded to a local account you
> created
> >in IMail then accessed everything from there.
> >
> >- Andy
> >
> >
> >
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